Students attending the event said they felt the need to support fellow members of their community.
“Anything that affects them affects us and affects the whole Harvard community,” said Samuel J. Bakkila ‘11-’12.
Jia Hui Lee ’12, another student in attendance, added that “Harvard workers are just as much a part of Harvard as students are.”
While the event began with members seated in the church, it turned into an organized rally in Harvard Square, as workers filed out in orderly lines, holding candles and signs and chanting as they marched in front of the Holyoke Center.
A part of the team that organized the event, Richard M. Maopolski ’13 that he felt the event was a success.
“It was beautiful,” he said. “This is the first step of many.”
—Staff writer Mercer R. Cook can be reached at mcook@college.harvard.edu.